Ya'll may want to add the following additions to your personal timelines. Di ********* 1440's Portuguese begin to capture Africans off the coast of Mauritania and the Sengambia region. 1619 First Africans are brought to English colonies, in particular to Jamestown, Virginia 1626 New Amsterdam is founded by the Dutch. Eleven Africans, all indentured servants, are among the settlers. 1638 The New England Slave trade begins in Boston Massachusetts. 1641 Jonathan Winthrop records first documented baptism of a slave in New England. 1660 Charles II of England urges the Council for Foreign Plantations to christianize slaves. 1661 Black Codes give statutory recognition to the institution of slavery in the colony of Virginia. 1664 The English take New Amsterdam and rename it New York. 1667 Virginia Assembly passes a law denying that baptism grants worldly freedom to slaves. 1680's Colonial governors in North America are instructed by England to convert slaves and Native-Americans to Christianity. 1681 Philadelphia is founded. 1688 Members of the Society of Friends (Quakers) protest slavery in Germantown, Pennsylvania. 1693 Society of Negroes is founded in Boston, Massachusetts. 1694 A group of ministers attempts to persuade the court of Massachusetts to pass a bill permitting slave holders to retain baptized slaves. 1700's Many North American slave holders fear that christianizing their slaves will lead to rebellion. 1701 Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts is established by the Church of England to send missionaries to the slaves in the North American colonies. 1706 Puritan leader Cotton Mather publishes The Negro Christianized, arguing that blacks are, indeed, human. He writes, "Man, Thy Negro is thy Neighbor." 1707 Isaac Watts publishes Hymns and Spiritual Songs. 1712 Slave insurrection in New York City.